How to remove apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png errors from apache log and keep iOS icon effects

apache, html, icons, ios

Solution

Two ideas come to mind:

- Use `mod_rewrite` to force an error, using the flags `[F]` (403 forbidden), `[G]` (410 gone), or `[R=404,L]` (a "redirect" to a 404). I think these skip the error log.

- Use a zero-length file (if the device supports this).

Problem

The title about sums it up. I want to get rid of all those 404 errors in the log for apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png without having to add such an image, thus losing the iOS icon effects.

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